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title: סֹלְלָה — mound · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סֹלְלָה (5550), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: mound. BDB 1906: n.f. mound. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סֹלְלָה

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«סֹלְלָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **mound** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 11 times · **Key:** 5550 · **BDB:** סֹלְלָה

### Glosses

a.mound (9); mounds (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

mound [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5550/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. mound [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5550/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. mound;—ס׳ 2 S 20:15 + 7 times; סוֹלְלָה Dn 11:15; pl. סֹלְלוֹת Je 32:24; 33:4.—שָׁפַךְ ס׳ עַל־הָעִיר cast up mound against the city, besieging it, 2 K 19:32 = Is 37:33, Je 6:6; Ez 4:2; 26:8; c. אֶל 2 S 20:15 (error for על); without על העיר Ez 17:17; 21:27; Dn 11:15; without vb. Je 32:24; 33:4.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סֹלְלָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5550/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 6:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.6/)

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כִּ֣י כֹ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת כִּרְת֣וּ עֵצָ֔ה וְשִׁפְכ֥וּ עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם סֹלְלָ֑ה הִ֚יא הָעִ֣יר הָפְקַ֔ד כֻּלָּ֖הּ עֹ֥שֶׁק בְּקִרְבָּֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) thus he.says Yahweh of.hosts cut.down wood and pour.out on Jerusalem a.mound that (the) city it.will.be.visited of.it all \[is\].oppression in midst its

*JPS 1917:* For thus hath the LORD of hosts said: hew ye down her trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem; this is the city to be punished; everywhere there is oppression in the midst of her.

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[Ezekiel 26:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.26.8/)

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בְּנוֹתַ֥יִךְ בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה בַּחֶ֣רֶב יַהֲרֹ֑ג וְנָתַ֨ן עָלַ֜יִךְ דָּיֵ֗ק וְשָׁפַ֤ךְ עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ סֹֽלְלָ֔ה וְהֵקִ֥ים עָלַ֖יִךְ צִנָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* daughters your on the land with the sword he.will.kill and he.will.make on you a.siege-work and he.will.pour.out on you a.mound and he.will.raise.up on you a.body.shield

*JPS 1917:* He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and set up bucklers against thee.

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